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When Ferraro speaks, then, of a pre-20th century rollback, she is on the mark--literally. The decision by the nation's highest court effectively gives judges--who make the decision to give out warrants--and police officers--who carry them out--free reign to search you or your person at the slightest provocation. As one dissenting justice stated, this move threatens to undermine the entire warrant process because it does not force police or magistrates to prove there is just cause for a search...
...month to allow admission of illegally obtained evidence if it would have inevitably been discovered, this decision sends a dangerous message to law enforcers--telling them that they will not always be held accountable for their actions and probably increasing their inclinations to act without sufficient provocation. As the rollback on civil liberties continues, Ferraro might have been more on the money to call the Court's decisions regressions to the 18th century, as the exclusionary rule touches the heart of the Bill of Rights. As Stevens stated, this more narrow application turns "the Bill of Rights into an unenforced...
...addition, North Sea oil output rose 13.5% during the first five months of this year. To meet those challenges, OPEC last week organized committees to press each member for lower production levels, and Saudi Arabian Petroleum Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani agreed to ask London and Oslo for a rollback in North Sea production. Then, in a symbolic gesture of unity, the oil ministers allowed heavily indebted Nigeria to increase its daily production of 1.3 million bbl. by a total...
...Ohio, Celeste made permanent a temporary 50% personal income tax hike passed by former Republican Governor James Rhodes and, on top of that, steered through a 40% increase. Blanchard last spring engineered a 38% Increase in personal income tax, with provisions for a partial rollback...
...shrink gargantuan deficits. Nonetheless, these measures amount to much less than a wholesale retreat from Reaganomics. The President, indeed, sees himself quite accurately as making the minimal concessions necessary to keep a rebellious Congress from attacking the core of his program, chiefly the income tax cuts, the social spending rollback and the big military buildup. For that matter, the change in tone is also less than total. Echoes of the chipper, partisan Reagan of yore rang through the President's remarks last week, and doubtless will resound in the State of the Union speech as well. At his news...